This is the story of a girl who ran away from New Zealand to Hollywood, her affair with a producer, her marriage and her rise to power. C.K.Stead won the 1985 New Zealand Book Award for All Visitors Ashore. He also wrote The Death of the Body, Smith's Dream and Five for the Symbol.

Sister Hollywood

Stead, C.K.

Collins

Tells the story of Harry Butler, a professor of philosophy, who has a posse of problems to do with his wife Claire, his mistress Louise, the philosophy department's strident "women's collective", his two closest male friends, his next door neighbours and the drug squad.

The Death of the Body

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Harpercollins

Seen from New Zealand during the war, Hollywood seemed to Bill Harper and his family too magical to be real. Bill's sister, Arlene, disappears from home. She is found - having an affair with a producer, arraigned before the UnAmerican Activities Committee and has success as a scriptwriter.

British & Irish

The end of the century at the end of the world

Harvill

A standard survey of modern English poetry from the new tradition established by Yeats in the 1890s through to Eliot, including a reassessment of the Georgians and the influence of Pound.

New Poetic (University Library)

A chance meeting has New Zealand writer Laszlo Winter thinking back to his time in London in the late 1950s. There was Australian Samantha Conlan, fleeing an affair with Freddy Goldstein, who carried with him a dark history. Rajiv was an earnest young Indian at work on a study of Yeats, and Heather was the girl with whom Laszlo exchanged lessons on Shakespeare for lessons in love. There was all of that and more, and then there was Laszlo, knocking blindly among them, despairing at his academic prospects, and gradually realising that he was, would only ever be, a storyteller. Now, years later, from the other side of the world, the people seem to spring to life again, in this beguiling work by one of New Zealand's foremost writers.

The Secret History of Modernism

Genre Fiction

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Spanning three years in the life of writer Katherine Mansfield during the First World War, this novel follows the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murry and her struggle to break through as a writer. As her brother and lovers are drawn into the conflict, Mansfield becomes ever more determined to write the new kind of fiction” that she feels the times demand. While sticking scrupulously to what is known of Mansfield’s life and friends, this extraordinary novel takes the reader beyond biography into the mind and heart of its subject.

Mansfield: A Novel

Vintage Books

My Name Was Judas

We all know the story of Jesus told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but what about the version according to Judas? Judas’s name became synonymous with betrayer, but is that how he saw himself? In this witty, original and teasingly controversial account, some forty years after the death of Jesus, Judas finally tells the story as he remembers it. Looking back on his childhood and youth from an old age the gospel writers denied him, Judas recalls his friendship with Jesus; their schooling together; their families; the people who would go on to be disciples and followers; their journeys together and their dealings with the powers of Rome and the Temple. His is a story of friendship and rivalry, of a time of uncertainty and enquiry, a testing of belief, endurance and loyalty. With his richly painted backdrop of ancient Palestine, Stead goes beyond the boundaries of the story known to us all and convincingly enters the mind of one of its key players. This bold novel, with its wonderfully clear narrative prose, is fresh, provocative and compelling.

What really happened to a soldier in the infamous Maori battalion, killed in the battle for Crete during World War II? And why did the soldier’s family place a curse on O’Dwyer, the officer who was his commander at the time he died? Half a century later two Oxford dons, Newall and Winterstoke, attend the funeral of their colleague O’Dwyer, an expatriate New Zealander. After the ceremony, Newall reveals to Winterstoke the story of the curse placed on O’Dwyer during the war and, in the days that follow, he continues the tales of O’Dwyer and his ‘cursed’ life. Slowly the stories of Newall, another New Zealander in self-enforced exile, and of Winterstoke are also revealed in Stead’s complex and subtle narrative which shifts across time and space from New Zealand to Oxford to Croatia and to Crete at the time of the allied defeat there.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Talking About Odwyer

History

Australia & Oceania

Penguin Putnam~trade

New Zealand's Harper family views Hollywood and the movies as an escape from the devastation of World War II, but Bill Harper, driven by dreams and memories, goes searching for the past, his lost sister, and the real Hollywood

St Martins Pr

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Sister Hollywood

The Death of the Body

Sister Hollywood

The end of the century at the end of the world

New Poetic (University Library)

The Secret History of Modernism

Mansfield: A Novel

My Name Was Judas

Talking About Odwyer

Sister Hollywood